Hey my beloved Steem'ers! This is a "rough mix reference video" that I made of a brand new song, "Welcome To Amerika." It's a protest song. It's a commentary on modern America... and it was a hell of a lot of fun to play with all the fun words and the crazy-ness of our current political regime... The video and rough mix are actually for my arranger, Joe Mennonna and electric guitarist, Gene Moore so they can add their parts... Again this is not the final thing but I wanted to share the process... Let me know what you think so far... and also there will probably lyrical tweeks as we get into it and it "settles in" over repeated performances and listens...
Welcome to Amerika (Hall of Mirrors)
Song #564 | Edit2 | 9/9/18
[4 patterns]
It’s a hall of mirrors
In a house of cards
On a “Debt End” Street
Pink Flamingo yards
It’s a scam of schemes
In a blur of memes
On a hill of “has-beens”
Green screen scenes
And Twitter streams that scream
“Welcome to Amerika!” (x4)
[2 patterns]
Smart devices
Bankers out on bail
Chronic Credit crises
“Too big to fail”
Corporate cronies
Buy low. Sell high.
It’s a babble of bubbles
And we’re deep in trouble
Where dreams didn’t use to
go to die…
Welcome to Amerika (x4)
INSTRUMENTAL
[Joe on a blazing, smoky, bluesy, SAX?
10 patterns: 2 patterns for the “buffer” after the refrain and 8 more patterns for the solo?]
Kids in cages
Reality star in “charge”
While the “wisdom of the ages”
Can be googled from a car
All the world’s attention
Is the “wages” of his “war”
And the stooge on stage
Says HIS space brigade
Is the biggest one by far...
Welcome To Amerika! (x4)
INSTRUMENTAL [10 patterns]
(Gene? Or Gene and Joe with a back and forth?)
It’s a hall of mirrors
In a house of cards
On a “Debt End” Street
Pink Flamingo yards
It’s a scam of schemes
In a blur of memes
That nobody reads and
Where we desperately need
Comedians in our Cars...
Welcome to Amerika 4x
[10 patterns vocal with my guitar line with G and J jamming?]
Welcome to Amerika.
Welcome to Amerika. 4X
WELCOME TO AMERIKA!
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